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Quotes About Attachment

Man is full of wants; he loves only those who can satisfy them all.
~ Blaise Pascal Pensées
Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.
~ Bob Dylan
We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.
~ Bob Dylan
The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
~ Bono
L'Amour est une surprise qui nous arrache à l'insipide, l'attachement est un lien qui se tisse au quotidien.
~ Boris Cyrulnik
The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.
~ Boris Pasternak
A?k bazen; asla sahip olamayaca??n birini sevmektir.
~ Boris Vian
The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?
~ Brad Meltzer
This man belongs to me, I want him!
~ Bram Stoker
If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?
~ Susanna Clarke
Particular patterns of thought get attached to particular movements or activities, and before you know it, it's impossible to approach that movement or activity without dislodging an avalanche of prethought thoughts.
~ Susanna Kaysen
sa's smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most. […] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells, slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their oxygen.
~ Susanna Kaysen
My friends have hated Asa, first for monopolizing my mind, then for the endless discussions of him they were subjected to, finally, for making me unhappy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Falling in love wouldn't have been such a disaster if she'd been curious or even willing to travel. But no, he'd fallen for a woman with roots so deep into an estate that she was willing to stay on even when she no longer had any claim to it.
~ Suzanne Enoch
When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.
~ Suzanne Somers
There is an ocean of difference between a real all-renouncing devotee of God and a householder devotee. A real sanny?si, a real devotee who has renounced the world, is like a bee. The bee will not light on anything but a flower. It will not drink anything but honey. But a devotee leading the worldly life is like a fly. The fly sits on a festering sore as well as on a
~ Swami Nikhilananda
Actually it is not necessary to renounce the objects of the world, because a human being does not actually own or possess anything. Therefore it is not necessary to renounce anything—but the sense of possessiveness should be renounced.
~ Swami Rama
Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment.
~ Swami Rama
Attachment was my mother, and anger was my father. They both died, so I have nothing to do. Now I do not need to do anything." Meditation will become your very nature when you give up attachment, anger, and pride. Then you will not have to pose for meditation, for your whole life will be a sort of meditation.
~ Swami Rama
Love makes people narcissists: this, too, Flannery now saw.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you.
~ Sylvia Day
As long as you understand the difference. People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.
~ Sylvia Day
Cary rocked back on his heels and twirled one index finger around another in a sign meaning, wrapped around your finger. Only fair , I thought, since he was wrapped around my heart.
~ Sylvia Day